# Obama doesn't sign the Anti-Landmine Treaty **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987 "2009-11-26T01:51:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Kearsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kearsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearsen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/141 "2009-12-03T17:56:28Z")
I won’t. I’ll decry our illustrious government like everyone has been prone to do lately. Need to kill a scorpion hiding in some mountains? Flatten the mountains. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/142 "2009-12-03T18:06:36Z")
> [@Kearsen](#): > > Need to kill a scorpion hiding in some mountains? Flatten the mountains. Yet we couldn’t even send in a few troops to pick up bin Laden when we had him trapped at tora Bora, much less flatten any mountains. Maybe we only do the later when it’s _totally_ pointless? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/143 "2009-12-03T18:31:51Z")
> [@Kearsen](#): > > Need to kill a scorpion hiding in some mountains? Flatten the mountains. With _what_, exactly? ---
**Author:** ![Kearsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kearsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kearsen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/144 "2009-12-03T18:51:25Z")
Bombs of course, lots and lots of them. Are we going to declare war first though? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/145 "2009-12-03T18:54:33Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > With _what_, exactly? Mountain flattener, of course. SHEESH! ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/146 "2009-12-03T23:40:54Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > Both have hair on their heads. > Both are male. > Both are carbon-based lifeforms. > > Therefore I guess Bush and Obama are identical. > > It’s a false fucking analogy, you twit. Yes, we have a new president, but the world looks just the same, and history ain’t changed. A black President? The change, it had to come, we knew it all along. I realized a while ago that it’s not a Democrat vs. Republican type of conflict in Washington. Both sides blame the other for the problems that they both created. They blame each other so you will keep voting for them, so they can stop those bastards in the “other party” from doing something bad about whatever the big topic of the day is. In reality, they’re just drunk with power. Perhaps next time, you won’t get fooled again. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/147 "2009-12-04T05:23:20Z")
> [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](#): > > Yes, we have a new president, but the world looks just the same, and history ain’t changed. > > A black President? The change, it had to come, we knew it all along. > > I realized a while ago that it’s not a Democrat vs. Republican type of conflict in Washington. Both sides blame the other for the problems that they both created. They blame each other so you will keep voting for them, so they can stop those bastards in the “other party” from doing something bad about whatever the big topic of the day is. > > In reality, they’re just drunk with power. > Perhaps next time, you won’t get fooled again. You are the reason we have so many political problems in this country. “Blah blah both sides are the same and anyone who votes for anyone is a fool”. Shut up, you ignorant slut. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/148 "2009-12-04T18:52:49Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > You are the reason we have so many political problems in this country. “Blah blah both sides are the same and anyone who votes for anyone is a fool”. > > Shut up, you ignorant slut. No evidence that I’m wrong? Just name calling? I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution, and take a bow for the new revolution. Smile and grin at the change all around me and drink the kool-aide. Listen, there’s nothing in the street, that looks any different to me, and and the parting on the left is now the parting on the right. Gitmo is still open, and really, it’s never going to close. It’s just too convenient to have a nice base out away from US civilian eyes, where you can keep things out of sight, and away from rescue and escape attempts. There’s security on both sides of the fence over there- The US on one side, the Cubans on the other. Michael Ellis- you are an adorable sweetie. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/149 "2009-12-04T19:33:39Z")
> [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](#): > > No evidence that I’m wrong? I see no reason to provide evidence that you’re wrong when you’ve provided no evidence that you’re actually right apart from a couple smug one-liners. You. Are. Stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/150 "2009-12-04T22:42:16Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > I see no reason to provide evidence that you’re wrong when you’ve provided no evidence that you’re actually right apart from a couple smug one-liners. > > You. Are. Stupid. I’m bored with this. I’ve upset you, and I’m sorry. As far as the troop increases, and the land mine treaty, you can check CNN. If I’m wrong about the current president being more of the same, I’ll move myself and my family aside, If we happen to be left half alive. Then I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky. For I know that the hypnotized never lie… [Here you go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD0ZdhtmSQ&feature=related) I thought you’d catch on quite a while back… I guess the youngsters of today are just a teen-aged wasteland. They’re all wasted! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/151 "2009-12-04T23:44:49Z")
Wonko, this board is for fighting ignorance, not rolling around in it like a pig in shit while masturbating to the stench like you seem to prefer. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987/152 "2009-12-05T02:19:18Z")
You mean it’s not for name calling, and adoring our President, you sugar lipped devil? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-doesnt-sign-the-anti-landmine-treaty/518987.md?page=7)